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demarkation

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de·mar·ka·tion  (dmär-kshn)
n.
Variant of demarcation.


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The sacrificial traditions of Israel differed from those of the Romans and Greeks; yet a clear demarkation was made between "sacrifice" (zebach shelamim--"sharing offerings" as in Leviticus 3) and "holocaust" (olah--"burnt offering" as in Leviticus 4) (Malina 1996: 36).
In Africa you also encounter the question of space in the organization of the village, with its demarkation of certain boundaries between the different worlds, and of the home, with its threshold, its central room, and its spaces for the gods that guard it.
 
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